Archives

The Perils of Driving Blindfolded

During my adolescence, I never understood why my parents insisted on my friends and I being silent when they drove. This behavior always seemed to me an overcautious, very much “adult” motion...


Archives

A view from the zoo

Since thinking about this year’s squad makes me feel like banging my head against my desk, I started daydreaming about how great Binghamton would be if its best players could have finished...


Archives

Swim teams hold final home meets

The Binghamton men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams returned to the pool with a successful tri-meet against the Lafayette Leopards and conference rival Stony Brook Seawolves, and a dual meet against...


Archives

Warrant? Yes, Please!

My neighbors are crazy — I mean absolutely nuts — so I was not surprised when they summoned the police to my house on Friday night. I was surprised, however, when the...


Archives

Tales from the fairer sex: Sex in strange places — a wild time or wildly inappropriate?

A lot of my guy friends seem very interested in having sex in weird places: the library, a park, a fitting room, the ass (but that‘s another topic entirely) and so on....


Archives

At BU there isn’t, in fact, much in a name

After having read the placards that the University placed around campus describing the purpose of all of that terrifically inconvenient construction — presumably aimed at consoling all the poor alumni who were...


Archives

Ask your doctor is reality is right for you

The end of the year traditionally begs for reflection. We do not defy Dick Clark. Thankfully, we have shared an annus horribles so ridiculous and so rife in its breeding of gaffe...


Archives

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for those without finals

Have no finals during finals week, but stuck without a ride? Lucked out with only one final to take, but it just happens to fall on the last day of the week?...


Archives

Attention student bands! Practice at the Undergrounds

Starting next semester, the Undergrounds CafÃ.é will be available to student bands as practice space. Practice sessions will be open Sunday through Wednesday, and each day will have two sessions: 9 to...


Archives

Union’s Taco Bell closes for E. Coli precautions

During the investigation of an E. coli outbreak which stemmed from a Taco Bell supplier’s green onions, Sodexho Campus Services has closed its Taco Bell Express in the New University Union as...